Ralf Zeitler

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Ralf Zeitler (born October 7, 1903 in Saint Petersburg , † November 10, 1953 in Hamburg ) was a Baltic German economist and SA leader .

Life

Zeitler, the son of a pharmacist, graduated from grammar school in Dorpat and, after graduating from high school, began studying law and economics at the Berlin School of Commerce and the Universities of Cologne , Berlin and Rostock . Zeitler completed his studies in Rostock in 1931 with a doctorate . The title of his dissertation was The Rayonation of the USSR .

Grave in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf

Zeitler then worked as a research assistant at the Reich Association of Municipal and Public Employers' Associations in Germany , where he became the managing director of the Brandenburg part of the association. After the National Socialists came to power in June 1933, Zeitler was appointed deputy managing director of the German Community Conference (DGT) in Berlin under Kurt Jeserich . From 1935 Zeitler was Vice-President of the German Municipal Association. On April 20, 1937, on Jeserich's instructions, Zeitler took over the post of Managing Director General of the Economic Association of Deutsche Gaswerke AG . As a result, he gave up his functions at the German Municipal Association, except for the department head of the local press office and the statistical department. At the beginning of the Second World War , Zeitler was drafted into the Wehrmacht . From January 1941 he was again active in a leading position at the German Municipal Association. The leadership of the German Community Assembly coordinated measures of the National Socialist persecution of Jews ; for example, on October 28, 1941 , Zeitler sent the mayor of Munich and chairman of the German community assembly, Karl Fiehler , confidential telex information from the Reich Ministry of the Interior about the “deportation of Jews from the Reich territory”.

In addition, from 1941 Zeitler was head of the Russia Department (I-4) of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories , as he was able to speak Russian due to his origins.

After the end of the war, Zeitler was the managing director of a hospital company in Hamburg. The married Zeitler had two sons and a daughter. His grave is on the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Memberships and Political Activity

Zeitler was a member of the Black Reichswehr from 1923 to 1924 and was involved in the murder of the journeyman baker Erich Pannier - he admitted that he had stood guard with a comrade during the reburial of the body, but was acquitted in the later trial for lack of evidence. He was also a member of the Weinheimer Association of Old Corps Students and the Bismarck League . In December 1931 Zeitler became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and rose in this Nazi organization in 1942 to SA Oberführer . The Nazi Party he joined in February 1932. ( membership number 1103921).

Zeitler was also a member of the Committee for Welfare and Welfare Law of the Academy for German Law , was President of the Volksdeutsche Club  - specializing in spasticity  - and, under Hermann Althaus, was the deputy chairman of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare in Berlin. Zeitler published the Deutsche Zeitung für Wohlfahrtspflege and was co-editor of other specialist journals in the social field. He himself published mainly on local politics.

Publications

  • Yearbook of the rural communities. Handbook for mayors, local and community leaders and other rural administrators. Deutscher Gemeindeverl, Berlin 1934.
  • with Ernst Staenicke and Hans Schiedt (eds.): The new German labor law since the National Socialist government came to power. Text output with graduation u. Jurisprudence. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin (1934)
  • The Rayonation of the USSR. , supra, 1935; zugl. Diss. Univ. Rostock 1931.
  • The rural community. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1936.
  • The institutional welfare in Germany. In: Yearbook for Communal Science. 3, No. 1 1936, pp. 82-102.
  • with Walter Bitter and Bernhard von Derschau (eds.): German municipal ordinance of January 30, 1935. 2nd edition. German Gemeindeverl, Berlin 1936.
  • (Ed.): The German municipal statistics. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1938.
  • with Hans Schlempp: The Reich Registration Order (regulation on registration) of January 6, 1938. With the relevant statutory. Provisions u. Enact. Deutscher Gemeindeverl, Berlin 1938.
  • with Hans Schlempp: German municipal law. A compilation of all laws, ordinances and decrees. Heymann, Berlin 1939.
  • with Hans Schlempp and Hans Berthold: taxes, finances, budget, cash and accounting. With the collaboration of Hans Berthold. Heymann, Berlin 1940.
  • with Hans Schlempp and Fritz Preusse: welfare, health, hospital. With the collaboration of Fritz Preusse. Heymann, Berlin 1940.
  • with Hans Schlempp and Ernst Voss: War Administration Law. Heymann, Berlin 1940. Was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR .
  • with Hans Schlempp: civil status . Heymann, Berlin 1941.
  • with Hans Schlempp: Municipal economy. Heymann, Berlin 1943.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 691.
  2. ↑ Registration of Ralf Zeitler in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ A b c d e Wolf Gruner: Public welfare and persecution of the Jews. Interaction between local and central politics in the Nazi state (1933–1942). , Munich 2002, p. 37f
  4. ↑ Wolf Gruner: The Nazi persecution of Jews and the municipalities - on the mutual dynamization of central and local politics 1933-1941 (PDF file; 9.45 MB). In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 48th year, issue 1, 2000, ISSN  0042-5702 , pp. 75f.
  5. ^ Ralf Zeitler - Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . In: Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . March 15, 2018 ( ns-reichsministerien.de [accessed March 30, 2018]).
  6. ^ Bernhard Sauer: Black Reichswehr and Fememorde. A milieu study on right-wing radicalism in the Weimar Republic . Berlin 2004, pp. 135f., 139.
  7. ^ Ministry for National Education of the German Democratic Republic, list of literature to be sorted out, third supplement, Berlin: VEB Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1953
personal data
SURNAME Zeitler, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1953
Place of death Hamburg